April 16, 2003: Thanks to Rittenhouse Archives, we now have images of most of the autograph cards as well as all the costume cards for the upcoming Season Four set. Release date has been moved up a week to May 14th.

Autograph Cards
A22 Raelee Hill	A23 Melissa Jaffer	A24 Rebecca Riggs
		Coming Soon
A25 David Franklin	A26 Lani Tupu	A27 Rowan Woods
A28 Eliz. Alexander	A29 Murray Bartlet	A30 Bruce Spence
A31 John Bach	A32 Wayne Pygram	A33 Gigi Edgley
	Coming Soon or may be held over for the next set
A34 Kent McCord	A?? Justin Monjo
Costume Cards
C16 Jool 630 Available	C17 Jothee 725 Available	C18 Noranti 1555 Available
C19 Braca 1545 Available	C20 Grayza 1545 Available	C21 Moya  (Album Exclusive)
Gallery Cards
Crichton	Aeryn	D'Argo
Chiana	Crais	Scorpius
Grayza		Sikozu
Rittenhouse Archives has also emailed with more information about the case topper card for the set. Each card will be an individually hand-painted image of Sikozu by artist John Czop. These are not mechanically reproduced cards, each one is an individually created card.

VIRGINIA HEY TALKS ABOUT HER ARTIFEX CARDS

March 16, 2003: In her latest newsletter to her fans, Virginia Hey talks about her ArtiFEX drawings for the release of Farscape: Season Four trading cards. Here's what she has to say:

THE HIDDEN TALENT
"Well who would've thought you had that hidden talent!".. That was the reaction I received from my dear friend's at Rittenhouse Trading Card company when they saw a certain somebody's drawing of Zhaan.. hee hee.

The FS cast were all contacted and asked if they could draw, and if so, would they like to draw a sketch of their character.. I received my email and thought, "Now that's an interesting request, I'll have a play.."

Well, I CAN draw, no problems, (went to art school and studied Fine Arts before I started modeling way back when), so I submitted a "Zhaan" black pen drawing highly detailed..

Steven Charendoff, the CEO of Rittenhouse, (and dear friend,), loved it so much he commissioned me to draw the entire cast of FS!!!!!!!!! Yiiipppeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wooooop wooooooop!!!

I've been sneaky and haven't told many of you about this. Hee heeee..

Well, Im proud to say I've completed them! My portraits are called Farscape ArtiFEX Cards as part of the Farscape Season 4 Trading Card sets. Much like the costume cards were a part of previous sets.

I've drawn:

Crichton - Aeryn - Zhaan - D'argo - Chiana - Crais - Scorpius - Jool - Sikozu - Grayza

I drew the 10 portraits on 10x8 inch pages and they were reduced. They look FABULOUS as trading cards!!!!!!!!

However, this year I will travel to conventions with a copy of each of the original 10 in a book, so I can show you what they look like at their full size. At some stage I'll have an art show!

So, that's something I'm SO proud of!!! I've always had the artist streak, it runs in the family, my mother was an artist, writer and journalist, my father painted, and invented, my sister was an art teacher, one of my brothers was a commercial artist, one other brother paints in his spare time and the other is a Landscape garden designer. ALL artistic, it pours from us. So when I was asked why I didn't say anything, I said "Well, no one asked! I've always been able to draw, its just something that I've grown up with, I didn't think it was a special talent because everyone around me had it.. I've not ever thought of using it specifically!!"

I have always used my artistic nature, but just not in the particular medium.

Actually I'm VERY excited about it now, I seem to be having an art career late in life!! Well, as they say, "Youth is wasted on the youth!" Now I can appreciate my gifts! XXXX

I've also just finished Xena and Gabrielle for Rittenhouse, I'm very proud of those too!

I'll do a self portrait for my site one of these days.... Promises promises!!! Hee hee

MORE AUTOGRAPHS ADDED TO SEASON FOUR SET

March 7, 2003: Three more autographs have been added to "Farscape: Season 4 Trading Cards" scheduled for release in April. Kent McCord as Jack Crichton, Gigi Edgley as Chiana and Wayne Pygram as Harvey, "The Neural Clone." Click Here for a complete list of autographs for this set.

SEASON FOUR PROMO CARD NOW AVAILABLE

COMPLETE LIST OF AUTOGRAPH CARDS FOR SEASON FOUR SET

February 15, 2003: We've just learned from Rittenhouse Archives that the Case Topper cards for the Season Four set will be colored SketchaFEX cards with a difference. "...a hand-painted series of cards depicting Raelee Hill as Sikozu! Every card will be hand-painted – not reproductions of a painting, but every card uniquely hand-painted." There will be only 500 cases (6000 boxes) of the cards.

In addition to the case toppers, there will be a series of original drawings by Virginia Hey. These will be reproduced as ArtiFEX™ cards in a nine-card set featuring all of the main cast members and inserted at the rate of one in ten packs. In addition, Virginia Hey will sign some of the Zhaan ArtiFEX™ cards which will be inserted at the rate of 1:480 packs.  

SEASON FOUR TRADING CARDS

UPDATE: February 14, 2003: We have some new images of the three promo cards from Rittenhouse Archives

UPDATE  January 30, 2002: Due to some collector complaints, Rittenhouse has removed the parallel set of nine ArtiFEX cards. Originally, these cards were to have been signed by Virginia Hey and inserted on a 1/480 pack basis. Some collectors felt that it would be too difficult for them to collect a complete set and made enough noise that Rittenhouse changed this. Now there will be only one autographed parallel card, the X6 - Zhaan.  

January 23, 2003: The Season Four set of Farscape Cards from Rittenhouse Archives is looking better every minute. Here's a quick breakdown of what's going to be in the set when it comes out at the end of April.

ArtiFEX Cards: New to the set will be ArtiFEX cards which will have original art created by Virginia Hey. These will be found at the rate of 1 in every 10 packs. Even better, there will be a parallel set of Autographed ArtiFex cards, signed by Virginia Hey, inserted at the rate of 1 in 480 packs (about 1 per case). Depicted on the 9 cards of each set will be John Crichton, Aeryn Sun, D'Argo, Chiana, Captain Crais, Zhaan, Scorpius, Grayza and Sikozu.

Autograph Cards: There will be 12 autograph cards inserted at the rate of 2 in each box. Announced signers so far are Raelee Hill as Sikozu, Melissa Jaffer as Noranti, Rebecca Riggs as Grayza, David Franklin as Braca, Lani Tupu as the voice of Pilot, Rowan Woods as Male Zhaan, Writer Justin Monjo and five others still to be announced. 

Costume Cards: Six costume cards are planned for the series, one in each box. Characters who's costumes will be part of the set are Jool, Jothee, Noranti, Lt. Braca, Grayza and, exclusive to the collector's album, Moya! 

Case Topper: Something different in case toppers this time around: A colored SketchaFex card! In every case there will be a Sikozu colored sketch card.

Farscape Gallery Cards: There will be one of these in every box with a total of 8 Gallery Cards. Depicted are John Crichton, Aeryn Sun, D'Argo, Chiana, Captain Crais, Zhaan, Scorpius, and Rygel.

Behind the Scenes & Quotable Farscape: These two sets of 22 cards each continue from the Season Two and Three editions, going from #45 through #66. They'll be inserted at the rate of 1 in every 5 packs.